Article by Ars Technica: Various prominent writers like John Grisham, George R. R. Martin, David Baldacci and others are suing ChatGPT creator OpenAI for copyright infringement and unfair business practices.
Article by Ars Technica: Various prominent writers like John Grisham, George R. R. Martin, David Baldacci and others are suing ChatGPT creator OpenAI for copyright infringement and unfair business practices.
My only question is why are individual authors doing the suing and not the publishers?
For every mega-author like GRRM or Sanderson there are tens of thousands of authors that cannot afford to do anything about their works being stolen by LLMs. With how big a cut publishing takes it would make sense if publishers negotiate on behalf of all their authors. Instead, the big four in the US seem to be chasing after non-issues like limiting library and Internet Archive access, while leaving the real issues with AI out to dry…
It’s a legal thing: The owners of the copyright have to sue and in the book publishing business that’s usually the author. I assume that the publishers are involved too, but not as the official plaintiffs.